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Pakistan beefs up security on Pak Afghan border

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Sept 7, IRNA
Pakistan-Afghanistan
Pakistan has beefed up security along the porous Pak-Afghan border in the run up to the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan.

According to an announcement by the Inter-Services Public Relations as many 9,500 more troops had been deployed along the border with a view to ensuring no unwanted moment takes place there.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai had requested Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz during his Kabul a few weeks back. And Premier Aziz had assured every possible cooperation in this connection.

"We will do what ever possible to ensure no one illegally crosses the border from our side," Shaukat Aziz had told the Afghan president during their talks at Kabul.

Parliamentary elections are scheduled for September 18 in the war -devastated country.

The electoral process will take place after more than 25 years that witnessed ex-Soviet Union invasion, infighting and civil war in that country.

Pakistan had deployed additional forces along the porous Pak-Afghan border during the presidential election in Afghanistan last year.

The Pakistan-Afghanistan ban order is over 2400 - kilometer long and two Pak provinces, North West Frontier Province and Balochistan share border with Afghanistan.

In recent years, Pakistan deployed around 70 thousand security personnel along the border. They are equipped with latest weaponry:
scanners, cameras and other gadgets to ward off any possibility of cross border movement or attacks by remnants of Taliban or Al- Qaeda.

Reconnaissance helicopters also support these forces and additional security posts close to the border.

Reports had surfaced after the fall of Taliban in Afghanistan, soon after the 9/11 attacks in the United States that remnants of Taliban and Al-Qaeda had taken cover along the border inside Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pakistan carried out military operations in the tribal belt to flush out these elements, hundreds of them were arrested, scores of others killed while some fled the scene.

Search operations are still under way in some parts of Pakistan's tribal areas to apprehend these elements.

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